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he taught to his own disciples, and introduced to the world things concerning Caulacauch and Pronicus and other barbaric names. 26 Gnostics, who succeeded the heresies, but more than all these, madly practicing filthiness, and in Egypt called Stratiotici and Phibionites, and in the upper parts Socratites, and by others Zacchaeans. Others call them Coldians, and others call them Borborites. These boast of Barbelo and Bero. 27 Carpocratians, from a certain Carpocrates of Asia. This man taught to perform every foul deed and every practice of sin. And unless someone, he says, passes through all things and performs the will of all the demons and angels, he will not be able to pass beyond the highest heaven nor pass by the principalities nor the powers. And he said that Jesus had received an intelligent soul, and, knowing the things above, proclaimed them here and, if anyone should do things similar to Jesus, he is like him, and he forbade the law along with the resurrection of the dead, as the heresies from Simon and since. Of this one, Marcellina arose in Rome. And having made in secret an image of Jesus and Paul and Homer and Pythagoras, he offered incense to and worshipped these. 28 Cerinthians, who are also Merinthians. These from Cerinthus and Merinthus were certain Jews who boasted in circumcision, and that the world had been made by angels, and said that Jesus had been called Christ according to his progress. 29 Nazoraeans, who confess Jesus Christ, son of God, but live according to the law in all things. 30 Ebionites, very similar to the aforementioned Cerinthians and Nazoraeans, and in a way the heresy of the Sampsaeans and Elkesaites was joined to them, who say that Christ and the holy spirit were created in heaven, and that Christ, having dwelt in Adam and [at times putting off Adam and] again at times putting on the same, they say he accomplished it in his incarnate presence. And being Jews they use the gospels, but they abhor the eating of flesh, they hold water instead of God, and that Christ put on a man in his incarnate presence, as I said. They are constantly baptized in the waters both of summer and winter, for purification, so they say, just as the Samaritans. 31 Valentinians, who forbid the resurrection of the flesh, and reject the old testament, and reading the prophets and accepting whatever else can be allegorized into a likeness of their own heresy. They introduce certain other mythologies, speaking the names of thirty aeons, androgynous beings produced together from the father of all things, whom they consider both gods and aeons. And that Christ brought his flesh from heaven and passed through Mary as through a pipe. 32 Secundians, with whom are joined Epiphanes and Isidorus, using the same syzygies, having thought the same things as Valentinus, but relating some things differently from him. They add teachings of foul deeds. And they themselves also forbid the flesh. 33 Ptolemaeans, themselves also being disciples of Valentinus, with whom is joined Flora; and these also say the same things concerning the syzygies just as the Valentinians and Secundians, but in some way these also differ. This is also the summary of the thirteen heresies of the second tome of the first book. The following things are also in the third tome of the first book, in which there are thirteen heresies. 34 Marcosians. A certain Marcus has become a fellow student of Colorbasus, two principles and

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τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ μαθηταῖς ἐδίδασκεν, καὶ περὶ τοῦ Καυλακαὺχ καὶ Πρωτονίκου καὶ ἄλλων βαρβαρικῶν ὀνομάτων εἰσαγαγὼν τῷ κόσμῳ. 26 Γνωστικοί, οἱ τὰς αἱρέσεις διαδεξάμενοι, πλέον δὲ τούτων πάντων τὴν αἰσχρότητα ἐμμανῶς ἐργαζόμενοι, ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ δὲ Στρατιωτικοὶ καλούμενοι καὶ Φιβιωνῖται, ἐν δὲ τοῖς ἀνωτερικοῖς μέρεσι Σωκρατῖται, παρ' ἑτέροις δὲ Ζακχαῖοι. Ἄλλοι δὲ Κολδιανοὺς αὐτοὺς λέγουσιν, ἄλλοι δὲ Βορβορίτας αὐτοὺς καλοῦσιν. Οὗτοι τὴν Βαρβέλω καὶ Βερὼ αὐχοῦσι. 27 Καρποκρατιανοί, οἱ ἀπὸ Καρποκράτους τινὸς τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ. Οὗτος ἐδίδασκε πᾶσαν αἰσχρουργίαν ἐκτελεῖν καὶ πᾶν ἐπιτήδευμα ἁμαρτίας. Καὶ εἰ μή τις, φησί, διὰ πάντων παρέλθῃ καὶ τὸ θέλημα πάντων τῶν δαιμόνων καὶ ἀγγέλων ἐκτελέσῃ, οὐ δυνήσεται ὑπερβῆναι τὸν ἀνώτατον οὐρανὸν οὐδὲ τὰς ἀρχὰς οὐδὲ τὰς ἐξουσίας παρελθεῖν. Ἔλεγεν δὲ τὸν Ἰησοῦν ψυχὴν νοερὰν εἰληφέναι, εἰδότα δὲ τὰ ἄνω ἐνταῦθα καταγγέλλειν καί, εἴ τις πράξειεν ὅμοια τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, κατ' αὐτὸν εἶναι, τόν τε νόμον σὺν τῇ τῶν νεκρῶν ἀναστάσει ἀπηγόρευσεν, ὡς αἱ ἀπὸ Σίμωνος καὶ δεῦρο αἱρέσεις. Τούτου γέγονεν ἐν Ῥώμῃ Μαρκελλίνα. Εἰκόνα δὲ ποιήσας ἐν κρυφῇ Ἰησοῦ καὶ Παύλου καὶ Ὁμήρου καὶ Πυθαγόρα, ταύτας ἐθυμία καὶ προσεκύνει. 28 Κηρινθιανοί, οἱ καὶ Μηρινθιανοί. Οὗτοι ἀπὸ Κηρίνθου καὶ Μηρίνθου Ἰουδαῖοί τινες τὴν περιτομὴν αὐχοῦντες, τὸν δὲ κόσμον ὑπ' ἀγγέλων γεγενῆσθαι, Ἰησοῦν δὲ κατὰ προκοπὴν Χριστὸν κεκλῆσθαι ἔλεγον. 29 Ναζωραῖοι, οἳ Χριστὸν ὁμολογοῦσιν Ἰησοῦν υἱὸν θεοῦ, πάντα δὲ κατὰ νόμον πολιτευόμενοι. 30 Ἐβιωναῖοι, παραπλήσιοι τοῖς προειρημένοις Κηρινθιανοῖς καὶ Ναζωραίοις, συνήφθη δὲ κατά τι ἡ τῶν Σαμψαίων καὶ Ἑλκεσαίων αἵρεσις, οἳ Χριστόν φασιν ἐκτίσθαι ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ καὶ τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα, ἐνδημήσαντα δὲ Χριστὸν ἐν τῷ Ἀδὰμ καὶ [κατὰ καιρὸν ἐκδυόμενον αὐτὸν τὸν Ἀδὰμ καὶ] πάλιν κατὰ καιρὸν ἐνδυόμενον τὸ αὐτό φασιν ἐπιτετελεκέναι αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ ἐνσάρκῳ αὐτοῦ παρουσίᾳ. Ἰουδαῖοι δὲ ὄντες εὐαγγελικοῖς κέχρηνται, σαρκοφαγίαν δὲ βδελύσσονται, τὸ ὕδωρ ἀντὶ θεοῦ ἔχουσι, τὸν δὲ Χριστὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐν τῇ ἐνσάρκῳ αὐτοῦ παρουσίᾳ ἐνδεδύσθαι, ὡς ἔφην. Συνεχῶς βαπτίζονται ἐν τοῖς ὕδασι θέρους τε καὶ χειμῶνος, εἰς ἁγνισμὸν δῆθεν ὥσπερ οἱ Σαμαρεῖται. 31 Οὐαλεντινιανοί, οἳ σαρκὸς μὲν ἀπαγορεύουσιν ἀνάστασιν, παλαιὰν δὲ ἀθετοῦσι διαθήκην, καὶ προφήτας ἀναγινώσκοντες καί, ὅσα ἄλλα εἰς ὁμοίωσιν δύναται τροπολογεῖσθαι τῆς αὐτῶν αἱρέσεως, δεχόμενοι. Ἑτέρας τινὰς μυθολογίας παρεισφέρουσι τριάκοντα αἰώνων ὀνομασίας λέγοντες ἀρρενοθηλείας τε ὁμοῦ ἐκ τοῦ πατρὸς τῶν ὅλων γεγενημένους, οὓς καὶ θεοὺς νομίζουσι καὶ αἰῶνας. Τὸν δὲ Χριστὸν ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ ἐνηνοχέναι τὴν σάρκα καὶ ὡς διὰ σωλῆνος τῆς Μαρίας διαπεπερακέναι. 32 Σεκουνδιανοί, οἷς συνάπτεται Ἐπιφάνης καὶ Ἰσίδωρος, ταῖς αὐταῖς κεχρημένοι συζυγίαις, τὰ ὅμοια Οὐαλεντίνῳ πεφρονηκότες, ἕτερα δὲ παρ' αὐτὸν ποσῶς διηγούμενοι. Προστιθέασι τὰ τῆς αἰσχρουργίας διδάσκοντες. Ἀπαγορεύουσι δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ τὴν σάρκα. 33 Πτολεμαῖοι, μαθηταὶ καὶ αὐτοὶ ὄντες Οὐαλεντίνου, οἷς συνάπτεται ἡ Φλώρα· τὰ αὐτὰ δὲ περὶ τῶν συζυγιῶν καὶ οὗτοι λέγουσι καθάπερ Οὐαλεντινιανοὶ καὶ Σεκουνδιανοί, κατά τι δὲ καὶ οὗτοι διαφέρονται. Αὕτη καὶ ἡ τοῦ δευτέρου τόμου τοῦ πρώτου βιβλίου τῶν δεκατριῶν αἱρέσεων ἀνακεφαλαίωσις. Τάδε ἔνεστι καὶ ἐν τῷ τρίτῳ τοῦ πρώτου βιβλίου τόμῳ, ἐν ᾧ εἰσιν αἱρέσεις δεκατρεῖς. 34 Μαρκωσαῖοι. Μάρκος τις γεγένηται Κολορβάσου συμφοιτητής, δύο ἀρχὰς καὶ